Blood Mountain
Prog-metal's best band returns with a record that may be even better than its monumental Leviathan LP. Please welcome the new monsters of rock.
Around 30 seconds into "Bladecatcher," track six of Mastodon's new album, things go so far into left field that it might be necessary to stop the CD and back up to follow what just happened. That moment—a gnarled, hyperspeed squeal where the band's vocals (if that's what they are) congeal into an alien-tongued mass—is…
The two-year long-wait is over, and those Mastodon fans encouraged but leery of the slicker production of Leviathan over Remission will be even more bemused, or downright bewildered, by Blood Mountain, the band's first foray into major-label territory since signing with Warner Brothers' Reprise imprint (after all, this was the label conceded to Frank Sinatra as his own when he threatened to leave it).
<p><strong>Andy Capper</strong> worships at the altar of metal's newest, loudest, heaviest, most unreconstituted act. Now with extra Josh Homme.</p>
MASTODON fully lives up to its name and cements its status as one of the best newer American metal bands out there with, of all things, its major label debut. The band's third studio offering is an immense slab of brutally heavy rock that veers wildly between all-out thrash on cuts like opener "The...
Not since the glory days of the 1980s has American metal been as poised to take off into such heady new territory as it is now, thanks in large part to...
Mastodon - Blood Mountain review: A tepid exercise from Mastodon attempting to expand their traditional metal sound with more of the jazz, progressive and extreme metal facets; in the end, it's a bloated and repetitive record.